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Subversive Lives
A Family Memoir of the Marcos Years
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Southeast Asia Series Editors: Elizabeth F. Collins and William H. Frederick
Subversive Lives
A Family Memoir of the Marcos Years
Susan F. Quimpo
Nathan Gilbert Quimpo
with
David Ryan F. Quimpo
Norman F. Quimpo
Emilie Mae Q. Wickett
Lillian F. Quimpo
Elizabeth Q. Bulatao
Caren Q. Castañeda
Jun F. Quimpo
Maria Cristina Pargas-Bawagan
Foreword by Vicente L. Rafael
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Southeast Asia Series No. 130
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Subversive Lives: A Family Memoir of the Marcos Years
Copyright © 2016 in United States by Ohio University Press
Copyright © 2012 Susan F. Quimpo, Nathan Gilbert Quimpo and Anvil Publishing, Inc.
First Ohio University Press edition 2016
First published by Anvil Publishing, Inc. 2012
Cacho Hermanos Bldg., Pines cor. Union Sts., Mandaluyong City 1550 Philippines
Cover: (top) Nathan presides over National Democratic Front’s first press conference, Dispatch April 1985; (middle) Quimpo family in Manila, late 1960s; (bottom) strikers lie on the road to block trucks going to the Globe Steel factory, photo by Susan F. Quimpo.
Cover design by Beth Pratt
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Quimpo, Susan F., 1961– author. | Quimpo, Nathan Gilbert, author. | Quimpo, David Ryan F., 1955– contributor.
Title: Subversive lives : a family memoir of the Marcos years / Susan F. Quimpo, Nathan Gilbert Quimpo ; with David Ryan F. Quimpo [and eight others].
Description: First Ohio University Press edition. | Athens : Ohio University Press, 2016. | Series: Ohio University research in international studies. Southeast Asia series ; no. 130 | First published 2012 by Anvil Publishing, Inc. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016019898| ISBN 9780896803053 (hc : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780896803060 (pb : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780896804951 (pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Philippines—Politics and government—1973–1986. | Quimpo family. | Revolutionaries—Philippines. | Marcos, Ferdinand E. (Ferdinand Edralin), 1917–1989.
Classification: LCC DS686.5 .Q56 2016 | DDC 959.904/60922—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016019898
For Mom and Dad, for Jan, Jun and other kasama who fought the Marcos dictatorship and for the numerous families splintered by the struggle.
The Family
Ishmael de los Reyes Quimpo, 1918–1977
Esperanza Ferrer Quimpo, 1919–1971
Elizabeth (Lys) Q. Bulatao, 1943–
Norman F. Quimpo, 1945–
Emilie Mae Q. Wickett, 1948–
Catherine (Caren) Q. Castañeda, 1950–
Lillian F. Quimpo, 1951–
Nathan Gilbert (Sonny) F. Quimpo, 1952–
Ronald Jan F. Quimpo, 1954–ca. 1977
David Ryan F. Quimpo, 1955–
Ishmael (Jun) F. Quimpo Jr., 1957–1981
Susan F. Quimpo, 1961–
Foreword
Distinguished historian Vicente Rafael, whose encouragement and support were instrumental in the preparation of this memoir, received an early copy and was invited to provide his reflections. His response was the following essay on the book as well as on communism and its role in shaping Philippine history, one of his current interests as a historian. Some of the authors played important roles
